Bombardier’s C Series sell-off likely marks end of company’s venture into large jet market: experts

'Poor Bombardier flew too high and got too close to the sun.'

The Bombardier C Series, one of its jets pictured in Brussels in 2016, is seen as a state-of-the-art plane, although the company struggled to bring it to market under the crush of competition from Boeing and Airbus.The Hill Times file photograph

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BY JOLSON LIM

November 27, 2017

Bombardier’s deal to sell a majority stake of its C Series jets program to European aerospace giant Airbus has improved the company’s current prospects but likely marks the end of its foray into the large plane market, experts say.

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